Ordinary clear day

Chapter 215 Drawings
In a few days, Mrs. Tong will go home.After thinking about it, Shuning made a request to her elder brother. The two discussed it all night before Duanning finally nodded.

Two days later, which happened to be a holiday, he told his uncle and aunt that he would take his sister to visit his grandparents, and he led her out of the gate in a carriage smoothly.On the way, he excused that the snow was too heavy and he wanted to find a place to take shelter. He found a sheltered alley at the corner of the street, and just after he parked his carriage, he "accidentally discovered" that his friend Tong Ying was also nearby to take shelter from the wind and snow.

Duan Ning went up to chat with Tong Ying, Shu Ning heard their voices, suppressed the excitement in her heart, raised the car curtain a little, and saw Tong Ying who had been away for a long time.

It's been more than a year, and they haven't seen each other for more than a year.Even if there are occasional correspondence, it still cannot satisfy the desire to meet each other.Even if it is like now, it is better to only have a glimpse from a distance than not to see each other all the time.

He has lost a lot of weight and his complexion has turned dark, but he is in good spirits and has a smile on his face. Although he is talking to Duanning, his eyes are always looking at her, almost without blinking his eyelids.

Shu Ning opened the door curtain even wider. Anyway, Ma San'er who was driving was a confidant, and had already avoided the side. There were alley walls on the left and right. There was no one on the road ahead except Duan Ning and Tong Ying, so don't worry about being seen .She also stared at Tongying intently, not caring about the wind and snow rolling into the carriage.

Huh?Why is he leaning on a cane?Could it be that he was injured?

Shuning immediately became worried.Apparently, Tongying also noticed her uneasiness, and Zhuangruo unintentionally moved the wooden stick on her hand, and said a few words to Duanning.Then Duan Ning came over and whispered to her: "He told me to tell you not to worry, he just had some flesh wounds on his feet, and he is almost healed. The reason why he took the cane is because people always buy him drinks, and he can use it when he doesn't want to go The foot injury is an excuse." Shu Ning was not completely relieved: "So his injury is not healed yet? If I had known this, I would not have mentioned this matter."

Duan Ning patted her on the head and said: "He also wants to see you, if he really can't, he won't force himself. You should be more careful, I see him alive and kicking, very good." After finishing speaking, he turned and went back , and continued to talk to Tong Ying.Shu Ning still looked at Tong Ying worriedly. Seeing this, Tong Ying pretended to keep warm and jumped a few times with ease, expressing that the injury was really not serious, but Shu Ning stared straight at her.

At this time, the sound of horseshoes came from not far away, getting closer.Shuning reluctantly lowered the curtain, but raised it again.This carriage originally belonged to her exclusively, and she had tampered with it very early on. The windows were covered with a layer of gauze that had been rained before and the curtains were hung.Through the veil, one can see clearly, but the people outside cannot see the people inside.Through the veil, she saw two young men riding past, who seemed to be someone Tong Ying knew, and greeted him.Duanning was afraid that others would suspect him, so he took the opportunity to bid farewell to Tongying.

Tong Ying talked and laughed with others, and pulled them away together. Before leaving, she turned her head and looked in the direction of the carriage, and smiled, which made Shuning feel warm in her heart. wake up.

Duan Ning glanced at his sister with a half-smile, and said in a low voice, "Come back to your soul, I didn't know that brat can also use enchantment tricks. Don't let grandma see the clue, or there will be a good meal." Ning blushed, and said, "Big brother saw his sister-in-law at the beginning, didn't he have the same temperament? Let's not laugh at the hundred steps at fifty steps, and the elder brother should not laugh at the second brother." Duan Ning looked around, pinched her nose, Said: "You are my sister, where did the second brother come from?!" The brothers and sisters walked into the yard talking and laughing.

Tong's father was in good spirits, but he still cursed as soon as he opened his mouth.Today, the one who scolded was an official from another province whom I met yesterday. He came to Beijing to report on his work.

The siblings listened to him scolding a cup of tea without any surprises, and Shu Ning presented a pair of cotton gloves and cotton socks that she made herself, saying that it was to honor her grandfather and grandmother, please don't dislike the bad craftsmanship.Father Tong took a look, then asked his wife to take it away, and went back to the study by himself.Duanning and Shuning sent him away respectfully, and continued to listen to his grandmother's orders.

Mother Tong's attitude is very kind, and she is very concerned about the marriage between Duanning's son and Shuning.At first, she thought that the object of her granddaughter's marriage was just an ordinary clan son, and she didn't have any great prospects. She didn't expect that she would make such great achievements in the war against Galdan. It would be great if she could be promoted to the title, but now it seems that The future of the grandson-in-law is sure to be good.She looked at her granddaughter's appearance, and nodded slightly: This child is growing up and getting more youthful, and looks similar to her mother when she was young, so she must be able to win the favor of her husband, right?

Shuning only felt that the way her grandmother looked at her was a little weird, and she couldn't help but feel a little creepy.But Tong's mother just asked her kindly how her dowry preparations were going, especially her needlework.When she knew that Shu Ning had done a lot, she nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Can I take care of my body on weekdays? This is the most important thing to take care of. Why don't I let Nanny Cui stay with you for a while?"

Shu Ning's heart was full of alarm bells, and she hurriedly said: "Madam Cui has already taught it that day, and now my granddaughter is drinking tonic soup every day, and she is in good health. There is also a nanny who knows how to do it at home, and Er Niang often writes to give advice. Don't bother Nanny Cui anymore."

With all her talk, she finally persuaded her grandmother to give up the idea, and she was relieved in private.Just kidding, if we let that nanny Cui come again, she won't be able to be free.

The siblings left after lunch.Before leaving, Tong's mother repeatedly told Duanning to bring the child with her when she came next time. She hadn't seen her great-grandson for two months, so it was strange.Duanning quickly agreed.

Within two days, Duanning received a large package from Tianyang, which seemed to be paper, and it was all for his sister.Shu Ning took a look and realized that it was Tong Ying's drawing for the new family.

When the emperor issued a decree to grant the mansion, he ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to supervise the construction, and the location was Jishuitan.Tong Ying chose the old house of a former Ming official and asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to rebuild it on the basis of the old house, so as to save time, and then drew the structural diagram by himself. Before sending it to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, let the future mistress have a look Give some advice.

Shu Ning was so happy that she even felt kind to those blueprints, and hurriedly took them back to her room, not even caring about practicing her characters, so she carefully read them one by one.

This mansion does not occupy a large area.On the middle road, first there are two gates, and then there is a huge courtyard, the front living room, the outer study on the left, and the studio on the right, with trees in the courtyard; then the main courtyard, the main room, the ear room, the west wing room and the inner study, etc., even the toilet. Both have a small kitchen; behind the main courtyard is the road leading to the garden.There are two east and west roads, and the layout is symmetrical.First there are two small courtyards outside the second gate, and then there are two courtyards on each side, which are slightly smaller than the main courtyard and separated by small gardens.And these two small gardens are just some flowers and trees, some rocks, stone tables and chairs.

The back garden is very different.It is just on the edge of Jishuitan, and a swell of running water is drawn in to form a small lake, which flows back into the pool.On the surface, it is somewhat similar to the garden layout of Fangshan Bieyuan, with pavilions and pavilions distributed along the shore of the lake.But in fact, there are no mountains here, but there are several old trees and more houses, and they are not pavilions for viewing, but houses that can really live in people.

Shuning probably understood Tongying's intentions.In the hot summer, if you can live in such a place with flowers, trees and near water, it must be very cool, right?

Looking at these drawings, she was very excited and wished she could live in right away.But she held back and thought of a few ideas.

The first is the quarters of the servants.According to the picture, only the two small courtyards outside the second gate are likely to house servants, and the four courtyards do not seem to be used for such purposes in terms of scale and structure.She didn't know how many servants there would be in Beizi's Mansion, but thinking of her former Earl's Mansion, there were a lot of people, and there should be more in Beizi's Mansion.This is different from what I thought at the beginning. I thought that I would live in Prince Jane's Mansion. When I lived in another courtyard or a small house, I didn't need so many people. But when the mansion officially opened, it was different.Even if she and Tong Ying don't pay much attention to ostentation, if the Ministry of Internal Affairs sends someone over, they have to accept it.Therefore, she wrote in her reply that a row of rear-covered houses can be built behind the main courtyard. If she is worried about violating the regulations, she can separate the two sides and build a small courtyard in the middle as a passage to the garden.

Secondly, there are a few fewer trees in the garden.There are so many houses, there should be more trees, not flowers.Even if we plant saplings now, in ten or eight years, the trees will become green, and the garden will be even cooler by then.

Third, the small lake is very shallow. According to the drawings, the deepest is no more than four feet, which is relatively safe, but it is not possible to sail a boat. At most, there is a small boat or something. It is better to build a small pavilion in the middle of the lake. water play.

Fourth, the shore of the lake does not need to be built too rigidly. Leave a grass slope and slowly submerge into the water. When the weather is good, you can sit on the grass and read a book, or fly a kite...Of course, make sure there are no water snakes in the lake. .

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She wrote three pages eloquently, only to realize that she had too many opinions?Is this too rude?It was probably because he had designed a lot of blueprints for the renovation of the villa on the other side of the Juma River, and it took three days to make a final decision, and he was still a little unsatisfied, so now he looked at the blueprints of Beizi Mansion and felt vented?
She hastily re-read the reply letter again, and felt that she should let it hang out for a couple of days, because she needed to calm down.

But Duanning came to remind him soon.Because Tongying hoped to finalize the blueprint as soon as possible, he asked the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to give the final blueprint before the year, and started construction after the new year, trying to complete the construction as soon as possible, so that the wedding can be held in the new mansion.So if Shu Ning has an opinion, it's okay to mention it.

After hearing this, Shu Ning blushed a little, and ended the letter she had written earlier, and handed it back to her brother along with the drawings.

Before the 3000th day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Bao and Tong returned with their youngest son together, Xiao Liu's mother and son also entered Beijing, and the Sanfang family was reunited again.This year can be said to be all good news, not to mention the additions, the income of various industries is also very good.The two newly invested shops have a combined net profit of nearly [-] taels, which is offset by the newly purchased land, and there is still a surplus.Shu Ning's original intention has been realized, and the future income can be used to buy other dowry items.

Therefore, Sanfang Shangxia is the happiest family.

Sifang has already gone to Chengdu to take up his post, and he wrote a letter earlier, saying that he has settled down, and although he is not used to eating, he is doing well.This can be seen from the annual gift they sent back to Beijing.

As for Dafang, there have been some changes recently.

Jin Bao ordered people to hang a plaque of the Baron's Mansion at the gate.Now that he doesn't have to go to work every day, he has a lot of free time. Apart from personally taking care of the daily life and homework of his younger son and grandchildren, he is dealing with the affairs of the clan.He recommended a young cousin and a family nephew to become officials. Although they are only eighth or ninth-rank officials, they are better than those who have no official position in the past.In addition, he came forward to send several young people from the clan to Zhenghongqi official school, and mentioned to several clan elders that he wanted to set up a clan school to enlighten his children and learn poetry, books, riding and archery.The widows and widows in the family are lonely, and he condolences one by one, and gives assistance.These practices quickly strengthened his prestige as the patriarch.And because Mrs. Li regained control of the housework after giving birth, she was thoughtful and decent, which won the trust of the clansmen, and the baron's mansion was also more dignified.

Jinbao also showed his favor to Erfang and invited their family to go back to the mansion to worship their ancestors and have a reunion dinner during the Chinese New Year.Although Xingbao didn't know his intentions, but thinking that his eldest brother was now a close minister of the emperor, he agreed.

Although the fourth room is missing, the first room, the second room and the third room get along with each other barely during the Chinese New Year.Nala's attitude was very kind, Wanning didn't come home again, Suo Chuoluo had to pay attention to his decency as a member of the royal family, so he was polite to each other, and didn't blush, which made the third room in the middle relax tone.

The appearance of the two newborns added joy to several families.Mingrui is almost half a year old, he can already sit up by himself, and he likes to laugh very much, his hands and feet are chubby, like lotus root, very cute.And Li's newborn son, Man Rui, is only two or three months old. Although he is not as beautiful as Ming Rui, he is stronger than his brothers and sisters.He yawned all day long and blew small bubbles out of his nose. Everyone laughed when they saw him.

Wanliu Hashi, who had a miscarriage, felt a little uncomfortable.Although the sisters-in-law proposed to let her hug the child, she was very moved, but in the end, she just shook the little hand.Suo Chuoluo stared at his daughter-in-law dissatisfiedly, but said nothing in the end.

Zhenzhen felt a little strange, and asked her sisters-in-law afterwards, only then did she know the truth about Wanliu Hashi's miscarriage.It turned out that when she was four months pregnant, Cheng Ning couldn't bear it any longer, so Suo Chuo Luo decided to take in two housemates for him.At seven months, when she learned that one of the people in the house was pregnant, she couldn't bear it anymore, and she directly took the dowry girl to find the concubine's bad luck. As a result, the other's fetus was aborted, and she herself also because of The fetal gas was moved, and a seven-month-old boy was lost in a daze.Both husband and in-laws are very dissatisfied with her, if they were not concerned about her natal family, they would have yelled at her long ago.

But Qingning Shunning and his brothers couldn't help laughing at Chengning behind their backs.Because he was beaten and scolded by his wife at home, he was well-known among the guards.When he used to have bruises on his face, when asked by others, he would say that he fell, and after many times, someone nicknamed him "Brother Falling"; recently, his eye sockets were blackened, but he argued that After taking eye drops, others called him "old medicine".

But apart from ridiculing, Qingning Shunning also sighed for Chengning.The three of them are relatively close in age, and grew up together since childhood, even if the eldest and second wife are at odds, they are still closer than other brothers.Cheng Ning married such a wife, and they couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

After the Chinese New Year, Zhang Bao returned to Baoding early, but Tong and Xianning stayed.The two of them, husband and wife, had previously discussed and decided that they would always bring their son here and there, which would not be good for his studies. They would be placed in the capital, and they were worried that their elder brother, sister-in-law and elder sister might not have the time to take care of him, and that other people in the house might not be able to take care of him. He could be trusted, so he decided to hand him over to Mrs. Liu, and let him and Xiaobao study with Mr. Yang.Therefore, when Xiao Liu took his son back to Fangshan, he took Xianning back.Although Xianning was reluctant to part with his mother, brothers and sisters, and his little nephew, but thought that Fangshan Garden was fun, Master Cheng could teach him how to ride a horse, and Brother Xiaobao took good care of him, so he obediently agreed, but only asked to go back to Beijing to play from time to time .

Tongying sent the final plan of the new mansion. The Ministry of Internal Affairs only reduced the size of the front yard on the middle road and added another yard on the basis of the original picture. Everything else was similar to the original picture. Shuning The parts that were previously proposed to be added have also been changed.Tong Ying carefully asked for a detailed drawing of the main house in the main courtyard, with the specific dimensions and layout of the house on it.Shu Ning was overjoyed when she saw it, it seemed that the furniture-making business could be carried out ahead of schedule.

On the sixth day of February in the 36th year of Kangxi, the emperor once again marched in person, and Tong Ying also accompanied him.This time, Duan Ning also went to the northwest with the army in the form of a pen stick of the Ministry of War.Although relatives and lovers have set foot on the battlefield, Shu Ning and her family are not afraid, because this war will definitely end in victory.

She is now facing a major task, which is to officially start preparing for her dowry.Because there is a letter from Tongying, saying that after the war is over, they hope that the two can get married as soon as possible.

(Sorry, I wrote too much about furniture...)
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